All 4 Uses of
meager
in
The House of Mirth
- "The resources of New York are rather meagre," he said; "but I'll find a hansom first, and then we'll invent something."†
Chpt 1.1 *
- There were moments when such scenes delighted Lily, when they gratified her sense of beauty and her craving for the external finish of life; there were others when they gave a sharper edge to the meagreness of her own opportunities.†
Chpt 1.3
- The future stretched before her dull and bare as the deserted length of Fifth Avenue, and opportunities showed as meagrely as the few cabs trailing in quest of fares that did not come.†
Chpt 2.5
- It was a meagre enough life, on the grim edge of poverty, with scant margin for possibilities of sickness or mischance, but it had the frail audacious permanence of a bird's nest built on the edge of a cliff—a mere wisp of leaves and straw, yet so put together that the lives entrusted to it may hang safely over the abyss.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(meager) lacking in quantity or quality